Strudul

Maybe too many people trying to be youtube stars or something

Think that about sums it up.

They care more about getting likes / views on social media than the cars.

Want to do something about the rear bumper lights. Not a fan of the styling of aftermarket solutions, but was considering just removing the red lens to clear them out and fitting a red bulb. However, since that involves taking them apart anyway it'd be a shame not to do something a bit more special.

Thinking that I could gut the cluster and install 2, parallel LED strips:

- The top strip would be reverse lights / sequential indicators

- The bottom strip would be used for fog lights

E.g

Would implement something like these for the reverse lights / indicators and similar but in red for the fogs:

Questions / concerns:

Difficulty

- Retrofitting headlight DRLs is just a case of tapping into the wires and the controller will do all the work, I'm assuming it should be a similar process? Then it's just a case of making space inside the assembly and mounting them?

Legality

- Is it ok to have reverse lights and indicators combined? Not sure how they would work if you tried to reverse while using indicators / hazards and the laws / requirements.

- Will an LED tube be bright enough for a fog light?

- Would the light tubes need to be divided to stop light interference (white reverse + red fog just causing a pink glow)

Aesthetics

- Will it look shite?

- The tubes are white / clear, so you should only see colour when the lights are turned on.

Fogs:

Reverse:

Hazards / Indicators:

I can tell you from experience with plasti dip on tyres it sorta works but a lot of it flakes off. I sprayed my alloys black and cause it was plasti dip didn't bother covering the tyre. After a few hundred miles it looked like my tyre walls where shredded but it was just the plasti dip peeling off.

Spoke to someone who used dip to do whitewalls. If you prep the area, it holds very well.

Problems are:

- It goes brown in a week from brake dust and is a bitch to clean. Apparently it's easier to just respray over it, so it's not a convenient long-term solution

- Making a stencil is a right faff and there's a chance of leakage

Yeah - keep my informed when they are

Second Saturday of every month.

Burger King / B&Q car park, Leeds LS11 0BD

Sorry man, I know we've had our differences but I couldn't let you do that: it's truly dreadful and tacky. If you really must, at least keep the words next to each other.

 

But still don't

I'm All for DIY but I agree, it will look tacky but it's the font try a thicker type font

Well aware it looks crap. Calligraphy is not my strong point and Photoshop font packages are pretty limited, so I think custom text is a no-go. Though there is a point where tacky is so bad it's good

Will probably just replicate pre-existing brand fonts though - print them off and trace around them.

Only just saw this. These are amazing, would actually make me tempted to run pirellis������

You can choose a custom colour too, but they are >£3k...

Mine does the same and so do many 350s. Replaced the clutch, including the release bearing, and it's still there. Just learn to live with it.

Part of me thinks it ruins the car, part of me will smile every time I see it.

Assuming your lip won't catch, but it looks like you've got plenty of space at the front. Just take it slow, looks like you're only just scraping, so shouldn't need much more height.

Yeah its going to be a pain that's for sure. The public path is the tarmac in the pic so I only have the concrete to work with. I'm going to have to get a tradesman as I don't have the tools/time for this but I'm hoping they can take some of the floor out and create a more gradual slope in to replace the current "step up" outside the door. Downside will be the door will have a gap underneath it as the floor will be lower I guess. Still got to break it to the missus this is eating into the kitchen funds

Maybe just put some planks of wood in the middle of the garage. As your rear wheels hit them, the angle of the car will increase and give you more clearance. Because they are only in the middle, your wheels will drop off them again once you are fully in the garage, so you won't be at an incline.

How do you intend to sort the garage entrance? i assume that is a public footpath, so you can't build a ramp out onto it? And lowering the garage sounds... difficult

Stock RAYS are good wheels. They aren't the prettiest, or the widest, but nowt to sniff at. Maybe just get them powder coated to taste?

Don't think coilovers are worth the extra cost unless you will see track time.

Tein springs are just springs, though for the front wheels you will slide them over the existing shocks.

One of those things that as long as you know it's a common thing and nothing to worry about, you'll just get used to it and it won't bother you anymore.

Tranny mount coming along

- Took all the measurements needed

- Made a rig to hold everything in place (piece of wood with a hole in for the pin and some nails holding the mount itself in place)

- Cut out most of the rubber with a reciprocating saw

- Burnt the rest out with a propane blow torch and scraped it out

- Went over it with a file to clean it up and key the surface a bit

- Taped and rigged it up

- Mixed the PU and poured it in (hardness will be somewhere around ~70A)

- Completely forgot to take pics of the process

- Now to wait 48 hours for it to fully cure

Yeah but it was lovely and frosty this morning

It gets cold up North

What's the reception like in your stubby?

 

Since swapping out the bose head unit I can no longer get radio with my stubby!

It's not fantastic, but usually suffices. Rarely use it though as I just plug my phone into the aux.

Only if you get a build log up

Thought I'd do something about my stubby. It cost me £2, but it was a bit too wide at the base...

Decided to sand it down and got the trusty dip out

Pictures in the sun are hard

How to Bird-Proof Your Car

 

Many birds poop while flying. There are many different ways to encourage them to avoid your vehicle.

• Take a few old compact discs—four is enough—and make a tetrahedron or pyramid shaped structure with them. Make sure the CDs reflective sides are facing out. The sun will reflect off these surfaces.
   
  
• Take some cloth and hot glue it around a magnet and then glue the magnet to the bottom of the pyramid. When you get out of your car, place this structure on top of your car. (The cloth will keep the magnet from scratching the paint on your car.)
   
  
• The magnet must be strong enough to hold through the wind. A stereo speaker magnet works well.
   
  
• If you want to get fancy, make a small shaft so the tetrahedron can rotate and spin.
  

This structure will keep the birds away from the area because of the shifting of the light. These little contraptions can serve the same function around pools and decks, too.

 

Should pop along to Leeds Car Cruise sometime.

Murder would be done. I make my own kids open and close the doors touching only the handles

Not sure how else you'd open the door

As for closing, I usually just employ the self-closing feature of the Z doors - Get out, start walking off, doors self-close, lock it, don't even look back like a total badass... then obviously look back a few times cos it's a Z

Just found this video of the sound for anyone interested:

 

https://vimeo.com/104325203#t=80

I feel like I did something wrong when I clicked on the vid...it opened up a 7s vid of some lights for me

Links to a vid of a track day with the Z for me.

^Guessing there was supposed to be a video?

Presumably messing with the speedo / odometer / TC / ride comfort

If it were me, I'd sort the reflectors next - either paint / wrap or replace with smoked.

Had a massive one all over my headlight the other week and it had seeped through the gaps and coated the inside